Child & Co RBS Branch to close

IanManc

gary1312 said:

IanManc said:

 friends of mine have a son who is a newly qualified barrister and he has opened an account with Child & Co as a new customer, arranged through his Inn of Court which has banked with Child & Co for centuries. Child & Co has a long history of providing legal services for Inns of Court, chambers, law firms and individual lawyers and is still actively doing so. 

I'd be interested to know if said gentleman's account is simply a Reward/Select with flashy stationery, as is the case for all of us here, or if it's a more personalised private banking service in a similar way to Drummonds with their private banking for lotto winners?

He's newly qualified, so poor. He got the same select account as the rest of us!

gary1312

Deleted_User said:
 Closed to new business is accurate as the branch is closed & accounts won't be opened barring a questionable legacy form or already having an account at that sort code. 

Nothing questionable about the form, it's freely available on the RBS website, unlike legacy forms which are not. Closed to new business is inaccurate, I hold four accounts with the Child brand, all opened in the past month. Two of them were opened with the "questionable legacy form" which none of the RBS employees I've had contact with since seemed to find remotely questionable.

[Deleted User]

Yes really interesting to hear about the clients that still use Child, according to wiki there used to be a mini branch at Oxford I think some time ago.

gary1312

Have to say I'm much more impressed with the Drummonds card in the flesh as it were. Received the Drummonds/Child chequebooks today, also very impressed with the Drummonds design:

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The cheques do look good, shame about the card. I have to say since the switch to Mastercard both Child and Drummonds cards seem to me made more cheaply. Although I never handled a Drummonds card in the flesh. I showed the cards to a friend who was not impressed and said they "looked like normal cards"!

Marchitiello

As a data point, we had three Drummonds cards in the family from when these were still Visa cards and all had still more then 1 or 2 years before expire on them, and today we have received three replacement MasterCard version, so they are now proactively pulling out of the Visa network for all version of RBS cards. As a side note, the Visa version had much more sparkling into it that the current MasterCard has. 

WillPS

Marchitiello said:

As a data point, we had three Drummonds cards in the family from when these were still Visa cards and all had still more then 1 or 2 years before expire on them, and today we have received three replacement MasterCard version, so they are now proactively pulling out of the Visa network for all version of RBS cards. As a side note, the Visa version had much more sparkling into it that the current MasterCard has. 

Have your Child's Visas been swapped too then? My fiancée and I have 4 of them between us but no sign of being moved to Mastercard just yet.

My longstanding Natwest is still Visa too.

IanManc

WillPS said:

Marchitiello said:

As a data point, we had three Drummonds cards in the family from when these were still Visa cards and all had still more then 1 or 2 years before expire on them, and today we have received three replacement MasterCard version, so they are now proactively pulling out of the Visa network for all version of RBS cards. As a side note, the Visa version had much more sparkling into it that the current MasterCard has. 

Have your Child's Visas been swapped too then? My fiancée and I have 4 of them between us but no sign of being moved to Mastercard just yet.

My longstanding Natwest is still Visa too.

My Child & Co Visa card was replaced by a Mastercard out of the blue in January. The Visa card still had a couple of years left before the expiry date.

Marchitiello

My Child&co’s Visa was replaced months ago, but I believe it was done at expiration date if I am not mistaken.

gary1312

[Deleted User] said:

The cheques do look good, shame about the card. I have to say since the switch to Mastercard both Child and Drummonds cards seem to me made more cheaply. Although I never handled a Drummonds card in the flesh. I showed the cards to a friend who was not impressed and said they "looked like normal cards"!

I don't mind the Drummonds card and have actually adopted my Drummonds Select as my spending money account. I think their card design would work well as a standard RBS card if the Drummonds scripting were replaced by an RBS design, although anything would be better than the current RBS card!

It failed to impress my girlfriend when it was whipped out to pay for our meals in Wetherspoon the other day however. "Drummonds? What's that? One of those daft app banks like your Monzo?"